If you’re designing a brand-new product or you find yourself faced with a ‘tricky problem’ in production, we can work with a specification, drawings, a photo or simply a vision. We can also just discuss an idea you might have to check its viability.
✓ Re-shoring production with local supplier gi ves you reassurance over cost and quality control
✓ Product design capabilities from our UK based HQ
✓ Dedicated technical support team
✓ We’ve been manufacturing for over 100 years
Design for manufacture
We help companies Design for Manufacture (DFM) - the process of designing parts, components or products for ease of manufacturing with an end goal of making a better product.
✓ Detailed design from concept to manufacture
✓ Rapid prototyping
✓ Advice on best performing materials and manufacturing methods to suit your requirements and budget to turn the concept into reality
Brush Making Machinery
Hillbrush have 16 brush machines. Some of our latest machines include the Zahoransky LION and the Zahoransky TIGER offering a twin-tool capability for fully automated drilling, tufting, and trimming.
✓ Tight tolerances
✓ Fast turn-around
✓ High production capabilities
Zahoransky TIGER
Zahoransky TIGER
Natural Fibre Brushes
We have successful long-term relationships with suppliers worldwide enabling us to provide a more environmentally friendly solution.
✓ Advanced fibre dressing and mixing machines, giving our customers a better quality of end product
✓ Capability to use more than eight different natural fibres
FSC ™
Our certification reassures our distributors and our consumers that we manufacture your products using wood which comes from well-managed forests and sustainable sources.
✓ Forest management standards expand protection of water quality
✓ Prohibits harvest of rare old-growth forest
✓ Prevents loss of natural forest cover
✓ Prohibits use of highly hazardous chemicals
UK based Injection Moulding
Integrating plastic injection moulding into your project.
✓ Allows for complex geometries with tight tolerances
✓ Allows for large volumes of uniform, complex parts
✓ Compatible with a wide range of materials and colours
✓ Highly efficient
✓ High repeatability and reliability
✓ Ability to regrind and repurpose stock
✓ Reduction in carbon footprint
✓ Potential for recycled material to be used
Injection Moulding Machinery
Hillbrush have 10 injection moulding machine sizes including 90, 180, 200, 380 and 1,000 tonne locking force. We can accommodate moulded products from just a few grams up to 4.4 KG.
Our network of machines are connected to an automated material feeding system, individually monitored and controlled by an automatic dosing system for colour and other additives such as antimicrobial and metal detectable. We have the capability to mould all types of thermal plastic materials.
We can usually use your own mould tools or we can design bespoke mould tools for you.
Capacity
We can do low volume to large long-term production runs. We focus on streamlining the design and manufacturing process to make it seamless and issue free.
✓ Functional Prototyping
✓ Low-volumes
✓ Annual brush production of several million
Planet & Purpose
We are a company that takes responsibility for our products and our people with a clear sustainability mission:
✓ To make our world a cleaner and more sustainable environment to work, live and play in, through our high-quality innovative products and services
✓ We strive to do more good for our planet and our society - not just less harm
Recycled Materials
Where possible Hillbrush reviews a wide variety of materials to be able to offer the most environmentally friendly solutions.
✓ Aim to identify materials that meet rigorous safety and quality standards.
✓ Manufacture using recycled material. PET is supplied by our sustainability award-winning supplier.
✓ Ability to regrind and repurpose stock
✓ Recycling production waste partnership with a local company
✓ Assurance that your products are being manufactured in a way to limit the environmental impact.
Sustainably Focused
Put simply, deep thinking is not enough when it comes to creating a sustainably focused business. We have initiatives that we’re working on currently which include:
✓ Innovating and redesigning products to use less raw material
✓ Extending our LED lighting system to 100% factory site
✓ 14001 Certification
✓ B Corps Certified Company Accreditation
✓ Extending beyond scope 1 and 2 carbon accounting to scope 3
T o make our world a sustainably cleaner place
We’d love to invite you here to see our design and manufacturing capabilities and share a cuppa in our restaurant. We’re conveniently located just two minutes from the A303. Visit us
We have a large car park at the front of Visit Hillbrush with multiple disabled parking spaces, located close to the entrance. We have electric car charging points on site which are located close to the front of the building.
Hillbrush, Norwood Park, Castle Street, Mere, Wiltshire, BA12 6FE
Come in and have a chat with us over a coffee at our Brush & Broom Restaurant and we can discuss your idea futher.
